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An American Fanfare for Brass Quintet was composed in tribute to George Gershwin and Aaron Copland and in gratitude for their influence on the composer’s music life.  It is a striking ensemble

Azul Madrid for solo piano is reminiscent of the Romantic Era of classical music and evokes the spirit of Spain - both the restrained Franco era and the emotionally explosive post-Franco era.  It also

Inspired by a midnight drive across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, City Blues At Midnight is a stylized version of 12-bar blues with elements of blues, jazz, and classical music integrated into it. 

Elegy - Too Soon Farewell is a beautiful, elegant, and very melodic piece, with powerful audience appeal and sentiment. It is a strong addition to a concert program honoring heroic figures and is also very

Lamb Chops For Dinner was inspired by Mary Had a Little Lamb and is a fun and entertaining piano piece for students, teachers, recital programs, and family audiences. It also incorporates a range of piano

Nightfall In Hollywood Land - A Petit Film Noir was inspired by the film noir genre of the 1940s - the dramatic black and white visual style, the typical disastrous lapses in character and judgment, the

The Stowaway Astronaut uses words and music to portray an actual historic event from the early days of the U.S. space program - the first U.S. spacewalk by Astronaut Ed White - and uses an adult and a youth